Table 1. Associations between demographic, socioeconomic and surgical variables of patients with the level of importance of patient participation and desire for involvement in the prevention of SSI – São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 2021.

Variables	Importance of patient participation			Desire for involvement in SSI prevention
	OR	CI 95%	p-value*	OR	CI 95%	p-value*
Age	1,01	[0,97; 1,06]	0,542	1,01	[0,97; 1,05]	0,718
Men	0,50	[0,15; 1,59]	0,245	0,33	[0,11; 0,94]	0,043
Schooling
Basic Schooling	8,52	[0,41; 300,50]	0,179	14,25	[1,00; 426,04]	0,069
High School	3,24	[0,23; 45,02]	0,372	3,58	[0,41; 32,62]	0,248
College	1,60	[0,07; 36,46]	0,767	1,64	[0,13; 21,72]	0,705
Postgraduate	1,73	[0,06; 47,63]	0,745	1,35	[0,08; 22,83]	0,836
Income	1,01	[0,98; 1,05]	0,575	1,02	[0,99; 1,07]	0,237
Previous Surgery	1,82	[0,46; 6,89]	0,380	0,65	[0,17; 2,24]	0,507
Public hospital	0,72	[0,10; 4,43]	0,732	0,35	[0,06; 1,68]	0,206

OR: odds ratio; CI: Confidence Interval SSI: surgical site infection; *Ordinal Logistic Regression.